"A Cosmic Season's Greetings"
Just completely wonderful extrapolative science writing! Darksyd's Science Fridays are always a worthwhile trip.
Happy Holidays 'til the mollasses of January runs cold.. .
In the Constellation of Virgo, hundreds of millions of light years distant, there lurks a strange, mysterious force: The Great Attractor in ABELL 3627. Our new hybrid galaxy and all the others within two-hundred million light years are in freefall, dropping towards the location of this baffling phenomena. These galaxies form a spherical halo of spinning spirals and buzzing ovoids, all constricting around the Attractor. As we watch, our own newly enlarged galaxy comes blazing in like a whirling snowflake until gravity wrenches her apart, spraying the delicate fiery innards all across the local cosmos in great fountains of multicolored light which arc back towards the mammoth gravity well. The funeral pyre, only one of many thousands a relative minute, is exquisitely beautiful.
Happy Holidays 'til the mollasses of January runs cold.. .
"Attempts to study this and other phenomena further are hampered by its location near the plane of our own Milky Way."
ReplyDeleteBut I find that you can still just make it out if you crane your neck over to the right a few degrees and are at least 5'7".
Just fooling around, astrology is one of my favorite subjects. Okay, I'm still kidding...
Btw, I've encountered theological resistance to the Big Bang theory, don't know how widespread this is, but I found it puzzling. I would have thought creationists would like that one - the unseen hand of God in the moment of creation.
Like opposition to evolution, I think it's based on the fact that nothing but strict correspondence to the account in Genesis can work for many believers, and of course since Genesis doesn't mention a singularity, clouds of hydrogen gas collapsing into first-generation stars, etc., they don't think it could have happened that way. Otherwise the Genesis guy would have mentioned it.
Just fooling around, astrology is one of my favorite subjects.
ReplyDeleteLMAO! Oh man! Welcome back Paul!
I would have thought creationists would like that one - the unseen hand of God in the moment of creation.
I hear ya. I just think they're afraid of how much like projectile child-birth the "hand of God" looks.
And yah, you'd'a thunk that Genesis guy probably would've mentioned it.